Beschreibung:
Maurice Punch is Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE, and Visiting Professor at the Law School, King's College London. He is the author of Shoot to Kill: Exploring Police Use of Firearms (2010) and Police Corruption: Deviance, Accountability and Reform in Policing (2009).
Documents in chilling detail how the British government turned to violent and illegal measures in its fight against Irish Republicanism.
1. State Crime: 'Bloody Sunday' and the Troubles 2. State Terror and Insurgent Terrorism 3. Roots of the Troubles: Emergency Context: Conspiracy? 4. Security Units: Firearms Policy: Rough Justice 5. Dirty Tricks: Intelligence, Informants and Collusion. 6. Investigations, Courts, Inquiries and Whistle-blowing. 7. End Game: State Deviance: Learning from the Past. References Index